English Dictionary

confessional

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈfɛʃənəl/

名詞

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest. / A confession.

日本語の意味

告解室：カトリック教会において、告解（悔い改めの秘蹟）が施される小部屋。また、告解そのものを指す場合もあります。

She sat nervously inside the confessional, rehearsing the words she would say to the priest.

彼女は告解室の中で緊張して座り、神父に言う言葉を心の中で繰り返していた。

意味（1）

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.

意味（2）

A confession.

When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional. “My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign commercial, acknowledging voters’ anger over his having raised a hated vehicle fee and vowing to listen better if they gave him another chance as governor.

意味（3）

(reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.

These characters behave as crassly as they do in large part because producers of shows such as The Bachelor deprive them of all contact with the outside world ([…]) and ply them with alcohol, then goad them to unleash their petty grievances in filmed confessionals.

confessionals （ plural ）